Local government

“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!”

The last year has seen both the 10th anniversary of the inception of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the enactment of the Health Act 2009

The Chilcott inquiry has now heard its two star witnesses, the Prime Minister and his predecessors, though we have not been promised a report before the end of this year.

Martin Porter QC challenges the car driven culture in the UK

Ed Mitchell provides an update on flawed decision making & the protection of vulnerable adults

“Bombed—lost everything”. That was how one London Citizens Advice bureau memorably recorded the nature of the legal problems for the newly dispossessed “streams” of clients approaching the nascent service. War was declared on 3 September 1939 and the first bureau opened its doors the next day.

Court of Appeal rules council acted legitimately against anti-social former tenant

Is Public Law still public? asks Krishnendu Mukherjee

Dr Nicholas Dobson provides an update on local authority “wellbeing”

Prevention is better than cure say James Pike & Naomi Greenwood